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It's suggested in the HN guidelines to keep the original title whenever possible and not to editorialize. But I agree, without prior knowledge of yesterday's ou
by elaus 6y ago
It's suggested in the HN guidelines to keep the original title whenever possible and not to editorialize.
But I agree, without prior knowledge of yesterday's outtake it's hard to guess what's behind that title.
- dang 6y agoIt's ok to use a subtitle or a representative phrase from the article body, if that better expresses what the submission is about. The main thing we're trying to avoid is people cherry-picking some detail to put in the title or using it to put their own spin on a story. Since "Preliminary Incident Statement" is basically a subtitle in the OP, I've put that in the title field above.
- kortilla 6y agoIt’s not really editorializing to add detail of what a vague thing is referring to. Editorializing would be changing it to something like “Breaking the silence after a catastrophic outage caused by our gross incompetence”.
- herodoturtle 6y agoHah yes. Or what was that one we had the other day? "The death of Google"